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Pradeep Kumar

09/06/21 09:00 AM IST

Guidelines for the development of e-Content for Children with Disabilities

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Government releases guidelines for the development of e-Content for Children with Disabilities.

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  • Guidelines aim at fulfilling goal of Inclusive Education
  • A comprehensive initiative, PM e-VIDYA was launched on 17th May 2020, with an aim to unify all efforts related to digital/online/on-air education.
  • The programme interalia envisages development of special e-content for the Divyang (Children with Disabilities-CwDs). 
  • For the first time, an attempt was made to prepare guidelines for CwD also referred to as Children with Special Needs (CWSN) children so that the goal of inclusive education is fulfilled.
Features
  • e-Content for CwDs should be developed based on the four principles namely: perceivable, operable, understandable and robust.
  • e-Content including text, tables, diagrams, visuals, audios, videos etc. should comply with accessibility standards: national standards (GIGW 2.0) and international standards (WCAG 2.1, E-Pub, DAISY  etc).
  • Distribution platforms on which content is uploaded (e.g. DIKSHA) and Reading platforms/devices on which content is accessed and interacted (e.g. e-pathshala) must comply with technical standards
  • Reasonable pedagogical accommodations have been recommended to meet specific needs of CwDs
  • The technical standards and guidelines have been detailed out in Section 4 of the report.
Source: PIB

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